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Saturday, 17 March 2012

A week back Tom came around to tell us the very sad news that Dale had passed away the week before, a minor opperation that went wrong, he asked could we join he and his two sons and some friends at a Wake in memory of Dale yesterday evening.

Tom and Dale in the cockpit of Amazing Grace in 2009, this was just before Tom set off single handed to Grenada.

The original idea was that around forty may arrive, a quick check and the list soon went past 120 and looking at the long line of cars parked outside the Mabens home when we left last night, it will have been many more.

Tom had married Dale some fifty four years back, they had the two sons, lived on a beach in Mozambique for a few years when the sons were small. Then at their Sandton home, built the Endurance 37 you see in the photo above. They later sailed off with one of the sons and went cruising for a while.

The event last night was a toast to Dale, our friend of many years, there were tears all round but as the tears came so did the smiles. Dale may be gone but she will never be forgotton.

Friday, 16 March 2012

This is no fast fix, first we need to get the licence department to issue the forms to allow the export of the car, next we need the police to check that the numbers all match. In this case the 1966 Singer Chamois Sport engine number and Vin (body) plate do match but there are complications.

Inside the Stickland Police clearance department, the picture was taken with permision from the police.

The use of a four wheel trailer (thanks John) means I could move the Singer Sport in safety. At this stage I am about half way through a five hour process and the jobs not signed of yet.

This is Clive of the Stickland Police Car Inspection Department, he is recording the chassis and engine numbers. They will be sent to Pretoria for final clearance.

Back on the road again.

Off loading at the trucking company who will handle the export.

Safe inside, at this time we now wait for the papers from Pretoria Police dept.

This was the following day, I wanted to remove the cars engine, that will be staying in South Africa.

This is not the same pot, its the fine tune one, which will only work when you have the optional memory pack installed, I do have that, does anyone have the VHF pack for me?

Its working!

Look hard, can you hear the BBC World service!

I phoned Yaesu and Sam in the UK told me they have a re structured company and have changed the name back to Yaesu - Musen again. He also told me that a South African had just been supplied spares by them and they were quite happy to supply others.

Sam tells me his first communications receiver was the FRG7, which was the first one I ever used back in 1967 on yacht Brer Terrapin at the RCYC, Cape Town, after which I have been hooked on radio ever since.

I am hoping I can get this rather good news onto the SARL news bulletin board.

How hard can that be Justin?

Roy

Yaesu VHF TheYaesu FRV-7700 VHF Converterwas designed to work the Yaesu FRG-7700. It came in six versions:

There are six types, I need the version that will handle marine traffic,which will be type F.

F:118-130, 150-160, 160-170 MHz.

This external VHF converter connected simply to the back of the radio with the supplied cable. The FRV-7700 may bewired simultaniouslywith the FRT-7700 tuner using the supplied hard-wire cables.

This build is in Caracas, Venezuela, we shipped a kit there some while back.

The first thing to notice is the boat is built the right way up, thats a great idea and
means the dreaded turn over phase is removed, thats a time and a cost saver too.

Building this way up makes life easy, you can get into your boat and walk around right away. I personally would fit all the joinery cleats while the bulkheads are on the bench, then its all set out for you when your doing the fitting out,saves lots of time!

My thanks to Erminio who supplied the pictures of his kit in build.

We supply all the panels pre cut, its about 130 sheets of board, plus the epoxies, glass tapes and meranti wood for the stringers.

The Proteus 106 is a full offshore cruising style yacht with no fancy toys, not even inboard engines, those just add weight and of course cost. At 35 feet long the designer says this boat is the ultimate bare bones cat that will sail well and go offshore in safety.

There are a few options, which admittedly will take away the boats performance but possibly it is a worthwhile option. The headroom in the saloon center is 2mtrs, this dips to 1.75mtrs at the sides where we drop down into the hulls, the over all height can be raised, say 100mm this allows just that much more head room for the larger size crew.

This boat has some of the options as mentioned in this blog.

The transoms can also be extended, they then mean there will be rudders under the boat, rather than hanging off the back, some will see the orginal idea as the more simple, it will be cheaper.

Then there can be a canopy over the outside bridge deck, not what the designer intened but this has been done on the first boat launched in Thailand.

Another option is a similar looking boat but with a re design to make the size at 38feet, the volume doubles, so does the cost but the boat can carry far more and of course the larger size may suit some.

Roys Hillman Imp Years

Started some years back,the first blog was intended to carry the CNC ply and epoxy boat kits only.Then other items slipped in,it soon became a potted history of Roys past life,some of it anyway.

There have been many car projects in the past and maybe in the future. So recently a brand new blog was started to open a few doors to Roys history with the cars he has known.

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Roy Mc Bride

working class trades person,broom sweeper and potato picker,apprentice Joiner,master carpenter,emigrant,shopfitter,interior designer,disco dj,race car builder and driver,engine rebuild specialist,boat designer and builder,traveled to twenty nine countries,married to a surfing families daughter,two great children, three grand children,two boys and one girl,Ben,Luke and Holly,sailed the South Atlantic three times,twice on my own yachts,founded a timber retail store,importer and exporter,cnc cut boat and car kit maker,working with the Hillman Imp and derivitives for 47 years,more or less in that order.yes,still crazy after all these years!